Graham Greene
June 28, 2009
- Political writing at its best highlights the unexpected changes in parts of our world that are hidden to us. That’s true of writing about the corridors of power in our own capital cities, but it’s even more of a factor for a writer like Adam Lebor whose work – fiction and nonfiction – has captured the dynamism and double-dealing of Central Europe, in particular. Because I live in the ...
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June 24, 2009
- My second Palestinian crime novel A Grave in Gaza (UK title: The Saladin Murders) is just now published in Holland. The Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant asked me to contribute a list of my five favorite books, or at least those which've had the biggest impact on me as a writer. Here's what I wrote:Let It Come Down – Paul BowlesWriters look for resonance. You might say Bowles has us with his title ...
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April 25, 2009
- Christmas was just around the corner, reminding me of home. I was tired of palm trees and rice for Christmas. Dad wrote and told me they had snow. I felt disconnected, edgy. My Peace Corps life was almost over but the Vietnam war wasn’t. Nixon had drafted another 163,000 kids and the madness and the killing continued. I dropped by Wat Bovornives to give a check to the Headmaster. The money I ...
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April 24, 2009
- James M. Gaitis © 2009 The partial lifting of the embargo against Cuba presents something of a dilemma, at least from my non-nationalistic point of view. Not a dilemma for me but, rather, for those foreign policy makers in the capital city and for those who spend their days thinking strategically in the vaunted think tanks and for those perched on high in their ivory towers where they spend ...
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March 25, 2009
- After seeing my article, “A Book Reviewer’s Lexicon,” where I mentioned that I’d read 20,000 books, author Ken Coffman asked what books stuck out in my mind as premier ones, what authors consistently pleased me, and which books I’ve read more than once. Off the top of my head, I posted a list of books. Premier? I don’t know that they are, but for some reason, I remember the title and ...
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December 29, 2008
- Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few vultures looked down from the roof with shabby indifference: he wasn't carrion yet. A faint feeling of rebellion stirred in Mr Tench's heart, and he wrenched up a piece of the road with splintering finger-nails and tossed it feebly towards them. One rose and flapped across the town: over ...
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